Mercola: Advocating For Your Health

It has always been my goal to proactively help preserve and enhance the health of our global community.

But it can't be done by one person, alone. That is why we are working hard promoting our efforts through our newsletter and fundraising.

We're dedicated to giving back to the community, and we've partnered with key organizations who educate the public on important health, food safety, and informed consent issues.

The purpose of Mercola.com is to provide you with valuable health information, partner with like-minded organizations that are as concerned about your health as you are, and push for initiatives that can improve your health, while creating a sustainable world for you and your family. And that’s a mission we will continually uphold.

Working Together to Protect Health Choices

I choose to partner with select health and research organizations that are true advocates and educators. Through them, you are enlightened about important health, food safety, and informed consent issues. Mercola.com acts as an ambassador, allowing us to reach a large, educated and diverse audience--you.

All of our partner organizations share a rich history of advocacy and active campaigning for positive change.

An outgrowth of our work with these institutions has been the formation of Health Liberty, a non-profit coalition that strives to help protect every American’s right to make voluntary health choices. Health Liberty is comprised of the following organizations:

Click below to learn about each of our partners.

National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)

Fluoride Action Network (FAN)

An international coalition aimed at ending water fluoridation and alerting you to fluoride’s environmental and health risks, FAN keeps you informed about fluoride toxicity, and monitors government actions that may expose you to fluoride. They are taking on big battles – and winning!

Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT)

Before the FDA ever chose to allow GMOs into food without labeling, the FDA’s own scientists repeatedly warned that GM foods could cause unpredictable side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems. These scientists were ignored. IRT’s goal is to raise enough public awareness to eliminate GMOs from our food supply.

Organic Consumers Association (OCA)

OCA is a grassroots public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability, and addressing food safety, GMOs, the industrial agricultural complex, children’s health, and more. They are the only US organization focused exclusively on the interests of 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers like you.

Consumers for Dental Choice

Children, the unborn, and employees in the dental field are particularly vulnerable to mercury. But everyone is at risk from a mouthful of mercury. Consumers for Dental Choice is working to phase out amalgam use (a 50% mercury product) worldwide, and to promote access to mercury-free alternatives.

Health Liberty

Health Liberty is a nonprofit coalition formed by Mercola.com, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Fluoride Action Network (FAN), Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), Organic Consumers Association (OCA), and Consumers for Dental Choice (ToxicTeeth.org). It aims to protect every American’s right to make wise and informed healthcare decisions by providing them better access to truly empowering information.

How We Help

Creating
Awareness

At Mercola.com, we provide a platform for our partner sites so they can raise public awareness quickly and easily.

Spreading
Their
Message

At Mercola.com, we act as a gateway allowing our partners to reach out to a large and diverse audience.

Supporting
Fundraising

We donate to their causes without publicity or compensation, so that they can continue to promote their campaigning.

Issues Worth Confronting Head-On

I firmly believe the current health paradigm is flawed and that it can be damaging to your health. That’s why I have made it my mission to inform, educate, and raise awareness about conventional medicine and its allied, profit-driven industries.

Current issues everyone faces include, but are not limited to:

Campaigning for GMO labeling laws at the statewide level

We made the largest donation to Prop 37 (the Right to Know GMO Act) in California, which would’ve required labeling of GE foods. I believe you have the right to know if your food has been genetically engineered, so you can make informed decisions about your food and health.

Advocating for safe and informed vaccine choices

vaccines on you and your loved ones are heating up at the federal, state, and even private (business) level. I believe you should have the right to informed consent, and be truthfully informed about each vaccine’s inherent risk, and its risk-to-reward ratio without reprisal.

Keeping toxic mercury out of your mouth

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, and its poisonous effects can accumulate over time. It can cause widespread damage to your brain, nerves, immune system, and endocrine system. Mercury often finds its way into your body through dental amalgams (deceptively called “silver fillings”).

My joint efforts with Consumers for Dental Choice are raising awareness of dental mercury dangers, and have been influential in the upcoming global phase-down of mercury fillings.

Protecting Your Water Supply

Fluoride in your drinking water is linked to severe health hazards, including, but not limited to, dental fluorosis, brain damage, and osteosarcoma. Yet this toxin, incorrectly touted for its tooth decay fighting benefits, is still being added to your water supply without your consent.

The two most common fluoride products in your drinking water (socium silicofluoride and hydrofluorosilicic acid) are actually waste products from the fertilizer industry, and are classified as hazardous materials.

My anti-fluoride campaign has encouraged many communities – including Portland, OR and Windsor, ONT, CA – to act and stop their water supply from being fluoridated. Dr. Mercola believes people should not be required to use fluoridated water.

Reaching out to cancer-stricken children

Another worthwhile cause is children of the Kythe Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides financial and emotional support to pediatric cancer patients and their families.

My Story

Dr. Joseph Mercola

I am a licensed osteopathic and board-certified family medicine doctor. Osteopathic training is similar to MDs, except DOs practice a “whole person” and preventive approach instead of treating symptoms. Helping you take control of your own health is my deepest passion. As an author and wellness advocate, I have been privileged to be featured in TIME magazine, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, and the Today Show.

Huffington Post readers honored me as the top Ultimate Wellness Game Changer as an innovative natural medicine visionary. In 2012, The American College of Nutrition (ACN) granted me fellowship status.

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